A serum-free culture system for efficient in vitro production of bovine blastocysts with improved viability after freezing and thawing

Cytotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 121-129

  Yamashita, Shoko ^a   Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Itoh, Takehiro ^a   Satoh, Takeshi ^a   Hoshi, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a Res Inst for the Funct Peptides   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bovine embryo; Cell morphology; Cell number; Cryopreservation; In vitro culture; Serum free medium

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; CLONING; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION; FREEZING; GRANULOSA CELL; OOCYTE; SURVIVAL; TRANSGENICS;

EID: 0032872128     PISSN: 09209069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (37)

1. Adamson ED (1993) Activities of growth factors in preimplantation embryos. J Cell Biochem 53: 280-287.
2. Barnes D and Sato G (1980) Methods for growth of cultured cells in serum-free medium. Anal. Biochem 102: 255-270.
3. Bavister BD (1995) Culture of preimplantation embryos: facts and artifacts. Human Reprod Update 1: 91-148.
4. Brackett BG and Oliphant G (1975) Capacitation of rabbit spermatozoa in vitro. Biol Reprod 12: 260-274.
5. Eyestone WH and First NL (1989) Co-culture of early cattle embryos to the blastocyst stage with oviductal tissue or in conditioned medium. J Reprod Fertil 85: 715-720.
6. Freeman MR, Whitworth CM and Hill GA (1995) Granulosa cell co-culture enhances human embryo development and pregnancy rate following in-vitro fertilization. Human Reprod 10: 408-414.
7. Fukuda Y, Ichikawa M, Naito K and Toyoda Y (1990) Birth of normal calves resulting from bovine oocytes matured, fertilized and cultured with cumulus cells in vitro up to blastocyst stage. Biol Reprod 42: 114-119.
8. Fukui Y (1989) Effects of sera and steroid hormones on development of bovine oocytes matured and fertilized in vitro and co-cultured with bovine oviduct epithelial cells. J Anim Sci 67: 1318-1323.
9. Fukui Y, McGowan LT, James RW, Pugh PA and Tervit HR (1991) Factors affecting the in-vitro development to blastocysts of bovine oocytes matured and fertilized in vitro. J Reprod Fertil 92: 125-131.
10. Goto K, Iwai N, Ide K, TakumaY and Nakanishi Y (1994) Viability of one-cell bovine embryos cultured invitro: comparison of cell-free culture with co-culture. J Reprod Fertil 101: 257-264.
11. Greve T, Avery B and Callesen H (1993) Viability of in vivo and in vitro produced bovine embryos. Reprod Dom Anim 28: 164-169.
12. Herrler A, Lucas-Hahn A and Nieman H (1992) Effects of insulin-like growth factor-I on in vitro production of bovine embryos. Theriogenology 37: 1213-1224.
13. Johnson MH and Nasr-Esfahani MH (1994) Radical solutions and cultural problems: Could free oxygen radicals be responsible for the impaired development of preimplantation mammalian embryos in vitro? BioEssays 16: 31-38.
14. Kobayashi K, Takagi Y, Satoh T, Hoshi H and Oikawa T (1992) Development of early bovine embryos to the blastocyst stage in serum-free conditioned medium from bovine granulosa cells. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 28A: 255-259.
15. Kobayashi K, Yamashita S and Hoshi H (1994a) Influence of epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-α on in vitro maturation of cumulus cell-enclosed bovine oocytes in a defined medium. J Reprod Fertil 100: 439-446.
16. Kobayashi K, Yamashita S, Satoh T and Hoshi H (1994b) Low oxygen and glucose improves the development of fertilized bovine oocyte in defined medium without somatic cells. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 30A: 556-558.
17. Larson RC, Ignotz GG and Currie WB (1992) Transforming growth factor β and fibroblast growth factor synergistically promote early bovine embryo development during the fourth cell cycle. Mol Reprod Dev 33: 432-435.
18. Lee E-S and Fukui Y (1996) Synergistic effect of alanine and glycine on bovine embryos cultured in a chemically defined medium and amino acid uptake by in vitro-produced bovine morulae and blastocysts. Biol Reprod 55: 1383-1389.
19. Leibo SP and Loskutoff NM (1993) Cryobiology of in vitro-derived bovine embryos. Theriogenology 39: 81-94.
20. Leibo SP, Pollard JW and Martino PA (1995) Chilling and freezing sensitivity of 'reassembled' in vitro-derived bovine embryos. Theriogenology 43: 265 (Abstr).
21. Lim JM, Okitsu O, Okuda K and Niwa K (1994) Effect of fetal calf serum in culture medium on the development of bovine oocytes matured and fertilized in vitro. Theriogenology 41: 1091-1098.
22. Luvoni GC, Keskintepe L and Brackett BG (1996) Improvement in bovine embryo production in vitro by gluthathione-containing culture media. Mol Reprod Dev 43: 437-443.
23. Massip A, Mermillod P and Dinnyes A (1995) Morphology and biochemistry of in vitro produced bovine embryos: implications for their cryopreservation. Human Reprod 10: 3004-3011.
24. Nasr-Esfahani MH, Aitken RJ and Johnson MH (1990) Hydrogen peroxide levels in mouse oocytes and early cleavage stage embryos developed in vitro or in vivo. Development 109: 501-507.
25. Nasr-Esfahani MH and Johnson MH (1992) How does transferrin overcome the in vitro block to development of the mouse preimplantation embryo? J Reprod Fertil 96: 41-48.
26. Pinyopummintr T and Bavister BD (1991) In vitro-matured/in vitro-fertilized bovine oocytes can develop into morulae/blastocysts in chemically defined protein-free culture media. Biol Reprod 45: 736-742.
27. Rexroad CE (1989) Co-culture of domestic animal embryos. Theriogenology 31: 105-114.
28. Satoh T, Kobayashi K, Yamashita S, Kikuchi M, Sendai Y and Hoshi H (1994) Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP-1) produced by granulosa cells and oviduct cells enhances in vitro development of bovine embryo. Biol Reprod 50: 835-844.
29. Schultz GA and Heyner S (1993) Growth factors in preimplantation embryos. Oxf Rev Reprod Biol 15: 43-81.
30. Semple ME, Betteridge KJ and Leibo SP (1995) Cryopreservation of in vitro - derived bovine embryos produced in a serum-free culture system. Theriogenology 43: 320 (Abstr).
31. Shamsuddin M, Larsson B, Gustafsson H and Rodriguez-Martinez H (1993) In vitro development up to hatching of bovine in vitro-matured and fertilized oocytes with or without support from somatic cells. Theriogenology 39: 1067-1079.
32. Stadtman TC (1974) Selenium biochemistry. Science 183: 915-922.
33. Takagi M, Otoi T, Boediono A, Saha S and Suzuki T (1994) Viability of frozen-thawed bovine IVM/IVF embryos in relation to aging using various cryoprotectants. Theriogenology 41: 915-921.
34. Takahashi Y and First NL (1992) In vitro development of bovine one-cell embryos influence of glucose, lactate, pyruvate, amino acids and vitamines. Theriogenology 37: 963-978.
35. Thomas EL, Learn DB, Jefferson MM and Weathered W (1988) Superoxide-dependent oxidation of extracellular reducing agents by isolated neutrophils. J Biol Chem 263: 2178-2186.
36. Thompson JG, Gardner DK, Pugh PA, McMillan WH and Tervit HR (1995) Lamb birth weight is affected by culture system utilized during in vitro pre-elongation development of ovine embryos. Biol Reprod 53: 1385-1391.
37. Wright RW and Bondioli KR (1981) Aspects of in vitro fertilization and embryo culture in domestic animals. J Anim Sci 53: 702-729.